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The Battered Aircraft Hulks of Moreton-in-Marsh Fire Service College
(All images by True British Metal, cc-nc-sa-4.0) RAF Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire was one of hundreds of airfields hastily constructed throughout the British Isles during World War Two. Opened...
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Boneyard Bandits: Former Aggressor Squadron F-18 Hornets Await the End
(All images by Philippe Colin, reproduced with permission) On the south side of the vast AMARG facility at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, known as the Boneyard, rests a small collection of...
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F-4C Phantom Survivor of the Yankee Air Museum Fire at Michigan’s Willow Run...
(Images by Bill Dolak, reproduced with permission) This preserved McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II bears the faded paintwork of a retired aircraft that has spent years outside. The venerable jet was...
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Battered Wreck of A-4 Skyhawk C-209 Lies on the Slopes of the Andes, Where it...
(Image: via Fotolog) High on the slopes of the majestic Andes mountains rests the battered hulk of an A-4 Skyhawk jet which crash landed there during a training flight on June 23, 1994. When the...
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Battered Wrecks in the US Marine Corps Airplane Graveyard at MCAS Beaufort,...
(All images (unless stated) by Jeffrey Stone, reproduced with permission) In the southwest corner of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, at the junction of Trask Parkway and Geiger...
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This Battered F-4 Phantom Has Seen Better Days
(Image: Jeffrey Stone, reproduced with permission) One of several abandoned aircraft resting (not very peacefully) in an airplane graveyard at MCAS Beaufort in South Carolina, this dilapidated F-4...
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Dramatic Images Reveal Scenes of Devastation as Fire Engulfs Aircraft Carrier...
(All images by US Navy via Wikimedia Commons, public domain) In the summer of 1967 the supercarrier USS Forrestal suffered a devastating fire while steaming through the Gulf of Tonkin. On July 29, as...
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A-7 Corsair Combat Jet Passes an Abandoned Fort in the Saudi Desert
(Image: US Navy, public domain) Old and new (sort of, this photograph was taken in December 1990) are pictured together as an A-7 Corsair attack aircraft of the US Navy passes a long-abandoned, ruined...
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Cold War-Era Buccaneer Jet Looks Impressive on Scottish Gas Station Forecourt
(All images via Google Street View) Former military aircraft used as marketing tools have often experienced uncertain retirements, but the Elgin Buccaneer has fared significantly better than the...
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Is the US Air Force Burying its Mothballed Stealth Fighters?
(Image: US Air Force via Foxtrot Alpha) A product of the Lockheed Skunk Works that incorporated revolutionary low observable technology, the F-117 Nighthawk ‘Stealth Fighter’ was one of the most...
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US Marine Corps Phantom Wears the National Markings of a British F-4K
(Image: US Navy via eacott.com.au) It’s not often that military jets wear the national insignia of another nation, though it has happened on occasions throughout history in both times of war and...
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Palmdale, CA: ‘Secret Lockheed Drone’ Still Visible on Google Earth
(All images by Google Earth/Street View) In June 2012 the press was aflutter over claims that a commercial satellite may have captured the US military’s latest top secret spy drone parked in a...
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Australia’s Defunct F-111 Bomber Fleet Buried in the Swanbank Landfill
(All images by Thiess, low res screenshots via YouTube) November 2011 was a rough month for aviation enthusiasts in Australia. Over the course of four days from the 21st to the 24th, the Royal...
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Rare Colour Footage of Crashed Messerschmitt Bf 109 Fighter, World War Two
(All images by TopCameraman (see website) via YouTube) This rare colour video shows a Luftwaffe fighter that made a successful crash landing in the late stages of World War Two. The Messerschmitt BF...
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‘Cornfield Bomber': The Amazing True Story of an F-106 Delta Dart that Landed...
(Image: US Air Force, public domain) This F-106 Delta Dart interceptor must be the only fighter plane to have been abandoned by its pilot at 8,000 ft after entering a seemingly unrecoverable spin, and...
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Mitsubishi Zero Boneyard at Naval Air Station Atsugi
(Image: via Wikipedia, public domain) This forlorn collection of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters and other redundant planes, abandoned by Japan at the end of World War Two, offers a fairly typical...
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Mystery Heinkel Bomber Wreck Photographed in Sheffield, UK, During World War Two
(Image: via Picture Sheffield) This Heinkel He 111 bomber of Germany’s Luftwaffe is pictured here after being downed in England during World War Two. The aircraft’s identity, and that of its crew,...
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Dive a Wartime B-17 Bomber Wreck off the Coast of Corsica
(Image: Arnaud Abadie, cc-4.0) Submerged at a depth of around 90 feet, it may not be as intact as Papua New Guinea’s sunken ‘Black Jack’, but B-17 Flying Fortress 42-31044 still makes for an...
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Pagan Island: Wartime Wrecks & Relics of the Imperial Japanese Navy
(Image: Taro, cc-sa-4.0) It doesn’t look like much today, a barren, cratered wartime airstrip in the shadow of the mighty Mount Pagan stratovolcano. But the abandoned airfield on the west side of...
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The Rusting Wreck of Kiska Island’s Abandoned Japanese Midget Submarine
(Image: Photorator) On or around July 30, 1942 the Gato-class submarine USS Grunion and its crew of 70 disappeared off Kiska in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Sixty five years later in August 2007,...
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